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    HMS Detroit was a 20-gun sloop of the Royal Navy, launched in July 1813 and serving on Lake Erie during the War of 1812. She was the most powerful British...
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  • that year. HMS Detroit (1813) was a 20-gun sloop launched in 1813 and captured by the Americans later that year, becoming USS Detroit (1813). This article...
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  • factory. Raid at Georgetown and Fredericktown, Maryland (May 6, 1813): A British raid by HMS Mohawk on two U.S. villages on the Sassafras River, destroying...
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    20-gun British ship HMS Detroit (1813) (captured by the flotilla commanded by Commodore Perry; not the six gun sloop HMS Detroit (1816) destroyed by Lieutenant...
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  • into service as HMS Confiance. She was placed in Ordinary in 1817 and broken up in 1831. Scorpion was launched in the spring of 1813 at Presque Isle (now...
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    commissioned in early August 1813, named in honor of Captain James Lawrence who had died June 4, 1813, in a famous battle with HMS Shannon. Lawrence quickly...
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  • America in 1808 (confirmed in 1809) and sold in 1813. HMS Nancy was a mercantile schooner launched at Detroit in 1789 that served the Provincial Marine as...
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    Shannon vs USS Chesapeake on 1 June 1813 (the bloodiest such action of the war), HMS Phoebe vs USS Essex on 28 March 1814, HMS Endymion vs USS President on 15...
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  • HMS General Hunter was a 10-gun brig of the Upper Canada Provincial Marine then, in 1813, the Royal Navy for their squadron on Lake Erie. She was ordered...
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  • The capture of HMS Caledonia and HMS Detroit was an action which took place in the Anglo-US portion of the War of 1812. On October 9, 1812, 100 American...
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    fleet was under construction, Barclay had ordered the construction of HMS Detroit, which was to be a match for Niagara and Lawrence. Unbeknownst to Perry...
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  • at Put-in-Bay, Ohio on 10 September 1813, being one of several gunboats which caused heavy damage to HMS Detroit, the flagship of Commander Robert Heriot...
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    to Detroit as cartels with the prisoners they had taken at the fort and from the vessels. The British took Friends Good Will into service as HMS Little...
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  • Oswego, New York Pointe au Baril, Ontario Navy Island, Ontario Niagara Detroit, Michigan Oswegatchie Carleton Island Raven Creek Kingston, Ontario Prince...
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    Marine and then a Royal Navy yard from 1796 to 1813 in Amherstburg, Ontario, situated on the Detroit River. The yard comprised blockhouses, storehouses...
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  • also donated. On 9 September 1813, with Detroit added to the squadron, Barclay sailed from his anchorage in the Detroit River to break the blockade. Queen...
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    Battle of Lake Erie (category Battles in 1813)
    ship-rigged corvette HMS Detroit at Amherstburg. Because the Americans controlled Lake Ontario and occupied the Niagara Peninsula in early 1813, supplies for...
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    Fort Shelby (Michigan) (category History of Detroit)
    forces the following year in 1813. The Americans renamed it Fort Shelby then in 1813, but occasional references to "Fort Detroit" relating to the War of 1812...
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  • water. In May she assisted in fitting out prizes Queen Charlotte and HMS Detroit at Put-in Bay, and convoyed them to Erie. On 12 August 1814, Ohio was...
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    Battle of Frenchtown (category Battles in 1813)
    campaign to retake Detroit. The city was held by the British until a United States victory at the Battle of Lake Erie on September 10, 1813, allowed the recapture...
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    Yard (1813–1856) HMS Caledonia HMS Confiance HMS Detroit HMS Duke of Gloucester HMS Earl of Moira Nancy HMS Prince Regent HMS Princess Charlotte HMS General...
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    The siege of Detroit, also known as the surrender of Detroit or the Battle of Fort Detroit, was an early engagement in the War of 1812. A British force...
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    Chesapeake campaign (category 1813 in the United States)
    the War of 1812 was a British naval campaign that took place from 23 April 1813 to 14 September 1814 on and around the Delaware and Chesapeake bays of the...
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    HMS Java was a British Royal Navy 38-gun fifth-rate frigate. She was originally laid down in 1805 as Renommée, described as a 40-gun Pallas-class French...
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    Siege of Fort Meigs (category Battles in 1813)
    The siege of Fort Meigs took place in late April to early May 1813 during the War of 1812 in northwestern Ohio, present-day Perrysburg. A small British...
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    "Constitution" and the "Guerrière", 1813, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston USS United States vs. HMS Macedonian (1813), Sotheby's, 22 May 2008 (version displayed...
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  • States Navy during the War of 1812. The U.S. Navy purchased Alligator in 1813 (or 1812) at New Orleans, Louisiana. Commissioned as a tender at New Orleans...
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    USS Constitution vs HMS Guerriere was a battle between an American and British ship during the War of 1812, about 400 miles (640 km) southeast of Halifax...
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    USS Caledonia was a brig, formerly HMS Caledonia, that the United States Navy captured during the War of 1812 and took into American service. The brig...
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  •  14313. 13 September 1813. "Marine List". Lloyd's List (4803). 10 September 1813. "USS Hornet vs HMS Peacock, 24 February 1813". historyofwar.org. Retrieved...
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